Find Her a Grave
“VEHEMENTLY, BERNHARDT SHOOK his head. “Forget it. I’m not going to call the police, just pick up the phone and call. Not until I’ve had a chance to talk to a friend of mine—a lieutenant, in Homicide.”
“But—” She, too, was shaking her head, a blind denial of an impossible choice: a fortune that would keep her for life, in exchange for her only child, held hostage. “But we can’t just do nothing. We can’t—”
“We’ve got to assume,” Bernhardt said, measuring every word for maximum impact, “that Mafia... money bought that treasure. God knows, that’s what the police’ll assume. And the first thing that’ll happen, believe me, is that the police’ll confiscate the jewels. Then, sure as hell, while they’re conducting their investigation, they’ll pull my license. Then they’ll—”
“If you won’t go to the police, then I will. I’ve got nothing to hide. Nothing.”
“You might not have anything to hide,” Tate said, “but you’ve sure as hell got lots to lose.”MoreLess
“But—” She, too, was shaking her head, a blind denial of an impossible choice: a fortune that would keep her for life, in exchange for her only child, held hostage. “But we can’t just do nothing. We can’t—”
“We’ve got to assume,” Bernhardt said, measuring every word for maximum impact, “that Mafia... money bought that treasure. God knows, that’s what the police’ll assume. And the first thing that’ll happen, believe me, is that the police’ll confiscate the jewels. Then, sure as hell, while they’re conducting their investigation, they’ll pull my license. Then they’ll—”
“If you won’t go to the police, then I will. I’ve got nothing to hide. Nothing.”
“You might not have anything to hide,” Tate said, “but you’ve sure as hell got lots to lose.”MoreLess
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